False witness / Andrew Grant.

A woman disappears on her twenty-first birthday. The following day her body is found, wrapped neatly like a gift in a graveyard. No motive, no suspects. Then another victim is discovered in a crematorium parking lot. Again, she was killed on her twenty-first birthday. Again, her body was wrapped like a gift. By the third murder the tabloids have dubbed the culprit the Birthday Killer -- and Devereaux is under the gun. While Devereaux's own past nips at his heels, and his fragile home life threatens to unravel, he can't afford to be anything but totally obsessed with the frantic search through the many layers of Birmingham, Alabama, from its wealthy enclaves to its dark criminal underbelly. The only certainty is that Devereaux is hunting a killer determined to fulfill a deranged agenda in which women's lives are extinguished like candles on a cake.